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Stony Brook

Stony Brook is a hamlet bordering the Long Island Sound, located in northern , on , in . This historic town is home to Stony Brook University, The Stony Brook School, Three Village School District, and the “Stony Brook Village.”…
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  • Type: Town with 13,500 residents
  • Description: hamlet in Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island
  • Also known as: “Stony Brook, New York”, “Stony Brook, NY”, “Stonybrook”, and “Wopowag”
  • Postal codes: 11790 and 11794

Places of Interest

Highlights include Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages and Gamecock Cottage.

Museum
The , known as the Long Island Museum, is a nine-acre museum located in Stony Brook, New York.

Historic site
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is an historic building located at Stony Brook in Brookhaven Town, in on . It was built in 1876 for storage of oars and sliding-seat rowboats and is the only remaining wooden beach cottage that was part of West Meadow Beach.

Railway station
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Stony Brook is a station on the Port Jefferson Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located in Stony Brook, New York, adjacent to the campus of Stony Brook University, on the southeast side of New York State Route 25A, across the street from the intersection with Cedar Street.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Setauket-East Setauket and Head of the Harbor.

Village
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is a village, which is situated 2 miles northeast of Stony Brook.

Village
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is a village in , on the North Shore of , , United States. The population was 1,472 at the time of the 2010 census.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet and census-designated place in the , in , on , , United States. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census, at which time it had a population of 10,998. is situated 2½ miles east of Stony Brook.

Stony Brook

Latitude
40.9257° or 40° 55′ 32″ north
Longitude
-73.1409° or 73° 8′ 27″ west
Population
13,500
Elevation
89 feet (27 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US ZTY
Open location code
87G8WVG5+7J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158812607
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5139865
Wiki­data ID
Q1376559
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Stony Brook” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ستوني بروك”
  • Basque: “Stony Brook”
  • Bavarian: “Stony Brook”
  • Belarusian: “Стоўні-Брук”
  • Catalan: “Stony Brook”
  • Cebuano: “Stony Brook”
  • Chechen: “Стоуни-Брук”
  • Chinese: “斯托尼布鲁克”
  • Chinese: “石溪”
  • Danish: “Stony Brook”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ستينى بروك , نيويورك”
  • French: “Stony Brook, New York”
  • French: “Stony Brook”
  • German: “Stony Brook”
  • Gilaki: “استؤني برۊک (نيۊیؤرک)”
  • Gilaki: “استؤني برۊک”
  • Hebrew: “סטוני ברוק”
  • Irish: “Stony Brook”
  • Italian: “Stony Brook”
  • Japanese: “ストーニー・ブルック (ニューヨーク州)”
  • Japanese: “ストーニー・ブルック”
  • Japanese: “ストーニーブルック”
  • Korean: “스토니브룩”
  • Ladin: “Stony Brook”
  • Malagasy: “Stony Brook, New York”
  • Malagasy: “Stony Brook”
  • Persian: “استونی بروک، نیویورک”
  • Persian: “استونی بروک”
  • Polish: “Stony Brook”
  • Portuguese: “Stony Brook, Nova Iorque”
  • Portuguese: “Stony Brook”
  • Russian: “Стони-Брук”
  • Russian: “Стоуни-Брук”
  • Serbian: “Стони Брук”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Stony Brook, New York”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Stony Brook”
  • Slovenian: “Stony Brook, New York”
  • Slovenian: “Stony Brook”
  • Spanish: “Stony Brook (Nueva York)”
  • Spanish: “Stony Brook”
  • Swedish: “Stony Brook”
  • Tagalog: “Stony Brook”
  • Tatar: “Стоуни-Брук”
  • Turkish: “Stony Brook”
  • Ukrainian: “Стоуні-Брук”
  • Volapük: “Stony Brook, New York”
  • Volapük: “Stony Brook”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Stony Brook”. Photo: Iracaz, CC BY-SA 3.0.